Smart cafe-andriod based cafe menu display and ordering system

Abstract

Smart Café is an innovation to redesign the restaurant’s environment, digitalize their menus and provide customers an unusual dining experience. This document gives the design and implementation of an E-menu hardware device based on Android Operating System and development of a PHP based Menu Updating System to keep the E-menu up-to-date. The project aims to automate the ordering services in restaurants/cafes, eliminate ordering inefficiencies like wrong/late orders, and provide a solution to replace existing paper menus of yester-year, which becomes tatty and worn with time. The Android Food Menu app, ported onto the hardware device, offers menus with high-resolution pictures, detailed descriptions and prices. Using the device, the user can browse E-menu, customize selections and send his order wirelessly to Kitchen, without having the waiter to wait aside. The selected order is displayed on Kitchen Portal with table number and time of order, stored in database as a record and its receipt is printed at the Finance Portal. This reduces the tasks of the waiter to only deliver meal and receipt to the customer in one go.